[Scribus] Errors building from CVS

ephemeron ephemeron
Mon Nov 3 01:30:22 CET 2003


On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:36:15 -0500,
Peter Linnell wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 23:18, Craig H. Anderson wrote:
> > I have not been able to build from CVS.  This is on a Debian
> > system.  Some notes follow.

[...]

> <snipped from the docs>
> Troubleshooting
> 
> 
>  The majority of problems when compiling Scribus comes from
> using old versions of autoconf and automake (this caused large
> problems when I first got involved with development, Franz and
> I were using totally different version and that caused endless
> days of fun!). I would suggest using the following versions:
> 
> autoconf 2.57
> automake 1.6.3
> make 3.79

In Debian it's possible to install as many as four different
automake versions.  The OP might need to uninstall the other
versions (e.g. automake 1.4).



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